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Recording apparatus

a recording apparatus and recording technology, applied in the direction of printing mechanism, power drive mechanism, printing, etc., can solve the problems of inability to fill the ink tank with ink, foreign objects, and dust that is often accumulated, so as to improve the ease of operation and improve the effect of filling the ink tank

Active Publication Date: 2014-04-17
SEIKO EPSON CORP
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The invention is about a recording apparatus that can prevent things like dust and foreign objects from getting into its ink tank while also making it easy to fill the tank with ink.

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Meanwhile, dust often accumulates on a top surface of the main receptacle 131 if the recording apparatus is left standing for long periods of time.
This leads to a problem in that dust, foreign objects, and the like will enter into the main receptacle 131 from the ink injection port.
In this case, supplying ink to the ink cartridge has a risk in that a variety of malfunctions, such as clogging in a recording head, can occur.
Although employing a configuration in which the ink injection port is covered by an opening / closing member such as an upper cover member, a scanner unit, or the like located in an upper area of the apparatus can be considered, such a configuration has a problem in that it then becomes difficult to fill the ink through the ink injection port.

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[0042]Hereinafter, a recording apparatus 10 according to an embodiment of the invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Note that XYZ axes that are mutually orthogonal are indicated in the following drawings as necessary in order to specify directions, and the XYZ axes are indicated as necessary in other drawings as well. Here, in FIG. 1 and the like, the direction of an arrow X1 corresponds to “right”, the direction of an arrow X2 corresponds to “left”, the direction of an arrow Y1, which is a direction orthogonal to the X direction and is a direction in which recording paper (a type a recording medium) is discharged, corresponds to “front”, the direction of an arrow Y2 corresponds to “rear”, the direction of an arrow Z1 that is orthogonal to the XY plane corresponds to “top”, and the direction of an arrow Z2 corresponds to “bottom”.

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[0043]FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the recording apparatus 10 according to an embodiment of...

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Abstract

A recording apparatus includes a housing body, an opening / closing member, attached to the housing body via a pivot shaft so as to be capable of rotating freely, that covers the surface of the housing body on one side thereof, and an ink tank having an injection port for filling an ink holding chamber with ink used in recording. Here, the ink tank is disposed so that one end thereof is positioned within the housing body on the opposite side of the housing body as the side in which the pivot shaft is provided, and has a stepped shape including a step portion, the step portion being provided on a side of the ink tank that is further from the pivot shaft. The injection port is provided in the step portion, and when the opening / closing member is opened and the ink is to be filled.

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BACKGROUND[0001]1. Technical Field[0002]The present invention relates to recording apparatuses.[0003]2. Related Art[0004]The recording apparatus disclosed in Chinese Utility Model Publication CN-U-202278834 is an example of a recording apparatus such as an ink jet printer. The recording apparatus disclosed in CN-U-202278834 includes a high-capacity main receptacle 131 within the apparatus, and ink is supplied from the main receptacle 131 to an ink cartridge 11 via a tube. An ink injection port is provided in an upper area of the main receptacle 131, and ink is supplied to the interior of the main receptacle 131 via the ink injection port.[0005]In the recording apparatus disclosed in CN-U-202278834, there is nothing covering the ink injection port, and the ink injection port is provided so as to protrude outward to the exterior. Meanwhile, dust often accumulates on a top surface of the main receptacle 131 if the recording apparatus is left standing for long periods of time. In such a...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): B41J2/20
CPCB41J2/20B41J2/17509B41J2/1752B41J2/175B41J2/17536B41J2/17506B41J25/001B41J2/17553
Inventor KIMURA, NAOMIKUDO, SHOMASUZUKI, HIDENAOKANAYA, MUNEHIDE
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORP
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